Scripture Reflections for Easter Sunday: April 12, 2009

The Easter Gospel is far removed from Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs. There is nothing “soft” in the Easter account. Rather, it begins in a cemetery—a place of death. That is where the God of Life meets us—when all is in ruins, and there is no hope. It is in life’s raw, uncontrolled, and hopeless points, when there is nothing left that WE can do to save ourselves, it is there that the Power is born from the dust of death. In an age that has “tamed” the Easter message and made it a sales pitch for new wardrobes, it’s important for us to remember that its real message is for when the wardrobe fails, and all seems lost. God will be found there…and life will come. It is in EVERY area of importance in our lives that death shall have no dominion!